Poetry Does Theology
Chaucer, Grosseteste, and the Pearl-poet
What happens when poetry deals explicitly with a serious theological issue? In Poetry Does Theology, Jim Rhodes seeks one answer to that question by analyzing the symbiotic relationship that existed between theology and poetry in fourteenth-century England. He pays special attention to the narrative poems of Chaucer, Grosseteste, the Pearl-poet, the author of Saint Erkenwald, and Langland. Rhodes shows that Chaucer and his contemporaries wrote at the end of a linguistic and theological revolution-a time when revised perspectives on the creation and incarnation gave rise to a new humanistic spirit that transformed late medieval theological…
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- ISBN: 978-0-268-03870-0
- EAN: 9780268038700
- Produktnummer: 1792027
- Verlag: University Of Notre Dame Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 338 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.9 cm 520 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 520
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